Club president cuffs 1968 police cruiser

By Heidi Van Horne |
July 24, 2013

Sean Tajipour, president of West Houston Muscle, purchased a 1968 Plymouth Satellite police car this past April at the Mecum auctions.

West Houston Muscle member Stephanie Bentley is ready to âbook âem,â with handcuffs in one hand and a donut in the other. Bentley is seated on WHM president Sean Tajipourâs 1968 Plymouth Satellite police car.

Sean Tajipour and Stephanie Bentley poise with Plymouth police car, which is for sale.

Houston car people, including readers of my column, most likely will recognize the character in this week's readers' ride pics.

Sean Tajipour is assuming the position of Lt. Arcot "Thorny" Ramathorn from the 2002 movie, "Super Troopers" (portayed by director Jay Chandrasekhar in the film) for a recent hilarious photoshoot with his 1968 Plymouth Satellite police car.

Tajipour is the president of the West Houston Muscle, a group that celebrated its fourth anniversary earlier this year, and has been an extremely active member of the Texas car community ever since. Tajipour and his club have frequented my column since they began, regularly submitting members' rides and events.

Today's ride is owned by Tajipour, who purchased the cop car this past April at the Mecum auctions. He had previously picked up the 1932 "Fast N Loud" Pontiac at the prior year's auction, and attended this year with his mind set on picking up "another Pontiac to add to the stable," he said, adding, "this year, destiny took an unexpected turn and slapped a 1968 Plymouth Satellite police car in my lap."

A now-experienced Mecum buyer, he made a list of cars he was interested in "from Pontiacs, to movie-prop cars to anything unique or interesting," but the 1968 Plymouth hadn't made the list.

His first day there, he had no luck with any of the auctions and assumed he'd be without a new ride at least until the later auctions on Saturday. Friday afternoon came along, and the classic cop cruiser came with it.

" 'Hmm…' I thought," Tajipour said, "this would (be) so cool for West Houston Muscle to have some fun with, so let us see how this goes with the bids.' "

The auction began and there was no interest from the crowd, so Tajipour decided to throw one out to get the ball rolling.

He thought, " 'I'm sure someone else is going to fight for it like they always do.' I put in the first bid, which is actually the last bid, which was bittersweet as it took the fun away from the actual Mecum auction experience since there were no other bids. Well, that was easy!"

He won the auction with a single bid, took the Plymouth home and has been having a blast driving it all over town and to shows ever since. However, he thinks his next step might be to sell it and move on to another auction to see what he can get next.

The cruiser's in excellent condition, and has working siren and lights, which get plenty of attention at events. He did the photoshoot seen here with fellow WHM members, model Stephanie Bentley, Emily Pereya and photographer Matt Specht of Specht Designs, for a fun way to show off the unique classic ride.

For more information about the '68 Plymouth, or about West Houston Muscle, you can reach out to them at www.westhoustonmuscle.com, or come out to one of their upcoming events.

The next ones are the weekly Thursday cruise nights at Ripps Grille on Memorial, 7-9 p.m., and on Saturday, Aug. 17, WHM hosts the fifth edition of the Blast to the Past after-hours car show at Caliber Collision in Katy.